Lectures 7-10: Personality (ch 15)

Question 1

Identical twins reared together tend to be about as similar in their personality traits as identical twins reared apart.

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true

Question 2

Environmental factors shared among members of the same family play an important role in the causes of most personality traits in adulthood.

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true

Question 3

Birth order is weakly related to most personality traits.

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true

Question 4

Freud believed that sex was the only important drive in personality.

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true

Question 5

Freudians would say that most persons with very high opinions of themselves have overdeveloped egos.

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true

Question 6

According to Freudians, a given dream symbol (such as a snake) does not have the same underlying meaning for every dreamer.

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true

Question 7

According to Freud, a person who is orally fixated would be likely to drink excessively.

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true

Question 8

One strength of Freudian theory is that many of its predictions are hard to disprove.

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true

Question 9

Most neo-Freudian therapists, such as Adler, placed less emphasis on social influences on personality development than did Freud.

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true

Question 10

For radical behaviourists, our personalities are bundles of habits influenced by learning.

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true

Question 11

Radical behaviourists argue that we are sometimes 'unconscious' of the true causes of our behaviour.

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true

Question 12

Social learning theorists believe that observational learning is a key form of learning in addition to classical and operant conditioning.

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true

Question 13

According to social learning theorists, individuals with an internal locus of control are more prone to depression than individuals with an external locus of control.

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true

Question 14

According to Rogers, human nature is inherently positive.

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true

Question 15

Rogers believed that only severely disturbed people aquire conditions of worth.

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true

Question 16

Maslow claimed that almost all self-actualised individuals are sociable and easy to get along with.

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true

Question 17

Many claims of humanistic models are difficult to test.

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true

Question 18

One limitation of the big five model is that researchers have identified these traits only in American culture.

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true

Question 19

Research demonstrates that after late childhood, the levels of most personality traits virtually never change over the life span.

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true

Question 20

Personality traits typically predict behaviour in a single situation with high levels of accuracy.

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true

Question 21

According to Eysenck, extraverts tend to be less aroused than introverts.

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true

Question 22

Items with low face validity tend to be especially easy for respondents to fake.

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true

Question 23

Simple formulas that can be programmed into computers yeild MMPI-2 interpretations equal or superior to those of experienced clinicians.

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true

Question 24

Adding the Rorschach Inkblot Test to other measures in a test battery sometimes produces significant decreases in validity.

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true

Question 25

The more detailed and specific an astrological horoscope is about someone's personality traits, the more likely that person will perceive it as accurate.

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true

Question 26

Researchers suggest that although students sometimes fall victim to illusory correlation, experienced clinicians do not.

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true

Lectures 7-10: Personality (ch 15)

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